In the context of a systematic review, what is handsearching? Manually searching
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Question
In the context of a systematic review, what is handsearching?
Manually searching the table of contents of key journals
Handpicking the authors to search for in “author searches” of bibliographic databases
Retrieving studies by handwriting letters of requests for reprints
Handpicking the journals from which studies will be selected
Manually searching the table of contents of key journals
B.Handpicking the authors to search for in “author searches” of bibliographic databases
C.Retrieving studies by handwriting letters of requests for reprints
D.Handpicking the journals from which studies will be selected
Explanation / Answer
In the context of the systemic review, what is hand searching?
A. Manually searching the table of contents of key journals.
It started from the olden days. That time the researchers don't have access to listed bibliographic databases of past, current. Therefore they need to do the hand search of journals of the relevant studies literally. Handsearching is the manual search of contents of key journals. It is time-consuming but has potential value.
It is important in the systemic review because it helps